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By combining satellite imagery with data from ground-based weather stations, scientists can more effectively monitor and predict weather patterns.

• 01/16/2024
• Hannah Button

The most visited blogs in 2023 offer technical guidance for practitioners, share successful interventions from countries where USAID works, and more.

• 12/19/2023
• Jamie Schoshinski

USAID’s Resilient Waters Program and the Southern African Development Community’s Ground Water Institute (SADC-GMI) have been collaborating to enhance LIMCOM’s capacity to integrate groundwater initiatives into their transboundary management efforts.

• 06/09/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The Matobo Hills is part of the upper Umzigwane in Zimbabwe, which is a key high-altitude catchment area in the Limpopo river basin. High altitude catchment areas are the main sources of water for a river basin, producing 100 times more water than lower lying areas, and also major storehouses of biodiversity.

• 06/09/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on a five-year project to address water challenges facing communities in the Limpopo River Basin and Okavango River Basin.

• 06/08/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

A wetland is an area of land where water is at or near the soil surface for at least part of the year. Wetlands are a natural source of water and habitats for wildlife.

• 06/02/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

In Zimbabwe, USAID Resilient Waters is working with the Dambari Wildlife Trust to conserve and rehabilitate wetlands—a natural source of water for humans and wildlife alike.

• 02/09/2023
• Christine Chumbler

USAID launched the five-year, $32 million Resilient Waters Program in 2018 to improve transboundary natural resources management and increase the water security and resilience of communities and ecosystems

• 06/01/2022
• Wendy Putnam

USAID, through the U.S. Government’s Water for the World initiative, is doubling down on efforts that adapt to climate change and build resilience.

• 04/12/2022
• Ann Vaughan, Maura Barry Boyle

Since its inception in 2019, the Climatelinks photo gallery has grown to host more than 400 images of climate and development across 54 countries. Through community submissions and annual photo contests, the photo gallery has matured into a resource for the entire Climatelinks community. Images found in the photo gallery are available for viewing, download, and use by the Climatelinks community (with proper credit).

• 12/07/2021
• Stephan Hardeman

The U.S. Government’s Feed the Future program is making climate change a central objective of their strategy. Global food security is under stress from increasingly intense and frequent heat waves, droughts, heavy rains, and major storms, according to the new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

• 11/30/2021
• Tedi Rabold

The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis. Climate change is not just a looming existential threat, it is currently threatening development progress and exacerbating global inequities; increasing humanitarian needs, food and water insecurity, and displacement; and contributing to conflict.

• 05/04/2021
• USAID

The current global pandemic from COVID-19 is a potent, pressing example of why the international community must focus more on preparedness and risk analysis for a multitude of disasters. Disasters, from floods to droughts to heightened risks of conflict, are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change, environmental degradation, and social tensions.

• 04/22/2020
• Sarah Henly-Shepard, Ali Blumenstock

Over the past 13 years, I have had the opportunity to work with the poorest communities across Zimbabwe. I have seen families struggling to adapt to the changing climate, as their livelihoods mainly depend on limited and dwindling natural resources. However, through asset creation, I have also seen incredible strength, resilience, and community dedication to improving communal resources and food security.

• 03/24/2020
• Erina Machoko

As USAID and the international community know, if infrastructure fails during a crisis, the implications on human lives are enormous. To ensure future floods and other extreme weather events don’t cause the level of damage and misery seen in the wake of Idai and Kenneth, there are two myths that we urgently need to dispel.

• 01/28/2020
• Michael Szönyi